Work

Jobs, things I built, investments, talks.

Experience

HUD (YC W25)
GTM Engineer06/2026 – Present · San Francisco, CA

We build RL environments and post-training data for frontier AI models. I run go-to-market for our data marketplace, sourcing and onboarding the companies that sell data to AI labs. The market is brand new, so half the job is figuring out how it works.

  • YC W25
  • RL environments
  • Post-training data
  • Data marketplace
Clera
Founding Growth & GTM09/2025 – 06/2026 · San Francisco, CA

An AI career agent: tell it what you want, and it introduces you to founders at 600+ venture-backed startups. Built from a 24/7 hacker house with the team.

  • Built growth from scratch to 100k users and 1k+ signups a day
  • Built agentic outreach reaching 15k+ leads a day
  • Co-led the launch to #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt (#2 of the week)
  • Helped the founders raise the $3M pre-seed: strategy, deck and investor outreach
  • Pre-seed
  • 24/7 hacker house
  • 0 → 100k users
  • Agentic outbound
  • GEO
START Global
Managing Director & Board Member, START Fellowship05/2024 – 07/2025 · St. Gallen, Switzerland

Ran START Fellowship, a philanthropic accelerator for young founders from Africa and Latin America, inside Europe's largest student-run startup initiative.

  • Backed 30 startups with $650k in non-dilutive investments and ran a 7-figure program budget
  • Led a team of 15+, and sat on the START Global board (2024–2025)
  • Picked them from 1,000+ applications, scouting through 3 African and 8 Latin American countries and 40+ pitch events
  • Grew applications by 160% and reached 6M+ entrepreneurs
  • Our 150+ portfolio founders have raised $30M+ and created 500+ jobs, with alumni going on to YC, Techstars and 776
  • Built the incubator that took 200+ startups from idea to MVP
  • Leadership
  • Philanthropic accelerator
  • Investment committees
  • Africa & LatAm
Fundraising & Investor Partnerships05/2023 – 05/2024 · St. Gallen, Switzerland

Played matchmaker between founders and check-writers.

  • Built a network of 200+ VCs, angels and accelerators across Latin America, Europe and Africa
  • Helped 38 founders through their fundraising
  • 200+ investor network
  • Fundraising support
  • Deal flow

Fellowship startups we backed

Projects

  • Outbound automation engineClera · 2025 – 2026

    Agentic outbound to 15k+ leads a day.

    write-up soon

  • Product Hunt launchClera · Apr 2026

    #1 Product of the Day and #2 of the week.

    write-up soon

  • benedictwolters.comSide project · 2026

    An AI version of me, an MCP server, a curl card and a travel map.

    write-up soon

Talks, press & more

Press

Launches

Talks

  • Africa Summit 2024Speaker

    “Empowering African Entrepreneurs Through Ecosystems and Hubs”

    Africa Association · University of St. Gallen · May 2024

  • Latin America Week 2024Speaker

    “Career Prospects in Latin America”

    University of St. Gallen · Oct 2024

  • START Summit 2025Speaker

    “Inside the Accelerator: Scaling Dreams or Selling Hope?”

    7,000+ attendees · St. Gallen · Mar 2025

  • START Fellowship Demo DayHost

    Presented 10 of our startups to 200+ VCs

    START Campus · St. Gallen · May 2025

Investment committees · 12 startups backed

Judging & scouting

  • Startup selection

    1,000+ applications read, 30 picked for Batch 5

  • Pitch competitions & hackathons

    Organized 40+ in 13 countries, on the jury too

  • Venture scout

    Boardy, LvlUp Ventures and more

Board & advisory

  • START GlobalBoard Member

    2024 – 2025

  • START FellowshipAdvisor

    2025 – 2026

Education

Stack